My life since graduation:After graduation I continued to work for
the M&J supermarket until 1965. For the next few years I owned a
service station in East Ridge and worked at a couple of other jobs
until 1969 when I started a career with TVA that lasted for nearly 23
years. It started with a two-year Fossil power plant
operator-training program at the Widows Creek Steam Plant in
Stevenson, AL. In 1972 I decided that I wanted to try the nuclear
field and I transferred to the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant where after
additional training and several promotions I became a Shift Engineer
and held a Senior Reactor Operators License from the NRC. In 1987 I
transferred to the Maintenance department where I was a Maintenance
Manager until I took early retirement in 1991.

After retiring from TVA, I have performed various consulting
services (mentoring, project management, etc.) with the Department
Of Energy, at facilities located in South Carolina, Texas and at Oak
Ridge, TN and at various nuclear plants in the northeast and the
mid-west. My assignments took me to New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan,
New York and Pennsylvania. I just finished my third assignment at
the DC Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan.

I met my future wife, Kay Card, a Soddy girl in 1967 and we were
married in 1969 and we have a son and a daughter. Both attended the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Carter is 29 and is the
executive chef at the Cherokee Grill in Gatlinburg and Gwen is 26
and works on the staff at the Peninsula Lighthouse Mental and Drug
Abuse Center in Knoxville.

My lifetime hobby has been cars. I have owned several cars over the
years. I currently own a 1929 and 1931 Model A Ford and a 1939
Nash. My wife gets very frustrated with me when we travel because
I’m always looking over the countryside for cars. She thinks my
brain is in the shape of a car. I’m Vice President of the Lookout
A’s car club which is a local chapter of the Model A Ford Club of
America.